Date:	Sunday 19 November 1944
Time:	15:10
Type:	Douglas C-47A-80-DL (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	United States Army Air Force - USAAF
Registration:	43-15046
MSN:	19512
Year of manufacture:	1944
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 25 / Occupants: 30
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	5 km NE of Brighton -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Châteaudun Airport (LFOC)
Destination airport:	Newbury-Greenham Common RAF Station (EWY/EGVI)

Narrative:
Crashed into cloud-shrouded Newmarket Hill at a height of 600 feet (180 m).

Kent & Sussex History Forum
Military aviation disasters : significant losses since 1908 / D. Gero, 1999
USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers--1908 to Present / Joe Baugher

photo (c) IWM FRE 11778; near Brighton; 19 November 1944

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